Two years ago landlords helped defeat a New York City bill that would ban criminal background checks on potential renters and homeowners. Now they have secured changes to the measure that may push ...

New York City’s Department of Investigation needs four years to clear up a backlog of background checks on thousands of city employees, the commissioner said Monday, saying the agency has ...

New York City's Fair Chance for Housing Act (known as Local Law 24 or the Fair Chance Law) became effective on Jan. 1, 2025. The Fair Chance Law prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of a ...

NEW YORK-- The New York City Council is considering an end to criminal background checks for prospective tenants. Thursday, the Civil and Human Rights Committee held a hearing on the Fair Chance ...

The legislation effectively would end the use of criminal background checks by housing gatekeepers in New York City, with few exceptions. The legislation, co-sponsored by Majority Leader Keith ...

Proponents of the measures say background checks penalize people who have already served their sentence or who may have been treated unfairly by the criminal justice system. New York City’s bill ...

Starting in 2025, New York City landlords will be barred from performing criminal background checks on some tenants. The City Council on Wednesday approved a bill that limits a landlord’s ...

The new head of New York City’s sex crimes unit is not only ... law enforcement officer anywhere in the country that has that background,” King said. “When we go to a hospital and a rape ...

According to Gizmodo, this gives New York State 15 days to conduct the background check and determine ... There were 100 taken off the streets of New York City in 2019. That number skyrocketed ...

The popular artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT will no longer be banned in New York City public schools, officials said Thursday, months after New York became the latest city to ban the tool in ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. The New York City skyline was swept into an orange haze Wednesday, as air quality in the city—which canceled all outdoor activities ...